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Correction
Age/Level: Elementary and above Time: 25 minutes Players: 2 teams

Preparation: A list of 10 to 15 sentences that contain grammar mistakes

Aim: To identify grammar mistakes

This useful grammar game can be prepared very quickly. It's a good game to play with small
classes.

Procedure

Separate the class into two teams (A and B).

Write 10 to 15 sentences on the board and tell the class that each one contains a mistake.
The sentences should be graded according to the level of the class and concentrate on
points of grammar and vocabulary that the students have studied recently. Alternatively, you
could focus on typical mistakes your students make.

Tell the teams to read the sentences and look for the mistakes as you are writing them on
the board.

Explain that each team starts with 100 points.

Team A starts and chooses a sentence for Team B to correct.

Team B decides how many points they would like to gamble (the more confident they are,
the more points they will gamble).

The maximum bet is 50 points as there is a risk that one team could run away with the game
very quickly.

Team B then consults and gives their correction. Make sure you impose a time limit for
consultation.

If they identify the mistake, add the points to their total. If they don't identify the mistake, they
lose the points.

If Team B gives the wrong correction, Team A has a chance to pick up bonus points by
correcting the sentence. If they answer correctly, they get the points that Team B would have
won.

This means that Team A will be consulting at the same time as Team B, so everyone is
focused on the sentence.

It's then the turn of Team B to choose a sentence for Team A to correct and so on.

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